Technology

We hear it all the time; families don’t sit down together for dinner anymore. Statistics show more and more families are eating on the go and when at home just grab a bite whenever they can. There is a new app that may help families gather around the table together more often.

There is new app called ‘Split’ it helps users avoid people. People you don’t want to see, run into to or just avoid altogether. Most social networks are for connecting, this one is for disconnecting. Fairly simple how it works:

Almost half of American adults have had their personal information exposed by hackers this year. That’s about 110 million adults according to the identity Theft Resource Center. For 12 month period that number is very high.

The current speed for a ‘street luge’ is 115 miles per hour and Australian Daz Fellows is out to break that mark. He wants to attach two mini-jet turbines to his ‘street luge’ and go 300 miles per hours.

The video game Pac-Man celebrated its 34th birthday on May 22, and what a classic game it has been all these years.  The idea came from 27 year old Toru Iwatani, a Japanese student, and it the world by storm.

The world’s fastest texter is 17 year old Marcel Fernandes Filho from Brazil with a time 18.19 seconds. He beat the previous mark of 18.44 seconds to take the crown. He holds the Guinness Book of World Records for the fastest typing of a text using a mobile device.

There always has been talk of a cashless society and these days one In ten American’s no longer carry paper money. A Survey by Princeton Survey Research Associates International found 49 percent carry less than $20 and 78% less that $50 ...

In this day and age with everything on CD’s, hard drives and the latest in storage technology, Sony is working on a new cassette tape. The storage rate on this new cassette would have more storage than an iPod Classic, which can hold about 40,000 songs.

China is kicking around the idea of building a high-speed train that would run from the countries northeast to the United States. The rails would cross Siberia and the Bering Straits to Alaska, across Canada then to the U.S.

A request from the Ministry of Defense to scientists: find a way to make it rain! The Pentagon donated $7.5 million to help achieve this goal and scientists believe they have found a way by using a high energy laser beam.

A Dutch inventor has developed an adult onesie that becomes wearable technology. The onesie has a built-in Wi-Fi that will turn you into a walking hot spot.

The Internet is a busy place, but even you may be surprised by how much is going on.

The next piece of technology that will make you scratch you head, as in how do they do that will probably be Google contact lenses that include a built-in cameras. Known as Google Glass, they will be activated by the wearer.

On Saturday Russia will celebrate Cosmonaut Day in honor of Yuri Gagarin as the first man in space in 1961. Along with the celebration Russia’s Deputy Premier announced the Soviet Union’s plan to colonizing the moon by 2040.

It looks like BBQ grilling just became easier but it is taking the personal touch out of barbequing. The Lynx Smart grill is the next technological wonder that uses voice commands to do your cooking. The Lynx Concept Grill is expected to make it out by next summer, 2015, at a cost of $7,000.

NASA’s moon probe LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer) has been studying the moon's thin atmosphere since its launch in September, 2013. This space probe will not be coming back to Earth; NASA is going to crash land it on the far side of the moon.